Total 3D Home Deluxe 6.0

by Individual Software, Inc.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• ASIN: B0000C120M
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,985 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

For anyone who wants to design, decorate, and visualize home improvement projects. Total 3D Home Deluxe is the first product of its kind that offers powerful 3D home design with dynamic imagining, thousands of designer showrooms, actual brand-name products, a portfolio of home plans, landscaping, and gardens, and the ability to import digital photos--all together in one program. No other software is this innovative, complete, or easy-to-use.

Features:

• New! Quick Floor Plan Designer--simply drag and drop to create complete floor plans.
• Import digital photos--easily import pictures from your digital camera.
• 1000+ ready-to-build home plans.
• 2500+ designer showrooms to give you ideas and inspiration for your home.
• 5 million+ combinations of colors, textures, appliances, flooring, fixtures, and furniture.
• 20,000+ real products from leading manufacturers.
• Real-photo dynamic imaging for superior realism.
• Interior and exterior deck and garden projects.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid At All Costs!, November 21, 2003

By 

Curtis M. Harrell, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total 3D Home Deluxe 6.0 (DVD-ROM)

This software is pure crap! Please read the email I sent to their tech support department several weeks ago, then, go and buy ANY home designing software from Punch! To wit:

I recently purchased your software, Total 3D Home Deluxe 6.0. After several truly frustrating days of trying to use it to design a home, I find it completely inadequate, buggy in the extreme, and a 'total waste' of my money, since software that has been opened and installed can't be returned to any vendor, no matter how liberal their policies.
I usually would not take the time to write an email such as this, but I MUST say something about the various, and multitudinous issues I faced in attempting to design a home with Total 3D. First off, I had several problems of a nature that can only be called 'fatal': sudden, 'unannounced' crashes to the desktop being foremost among them. Also, the backup file was quite regularly corrupted by these frequent crashes, which forced me more than a few times to start over, either from scratch, or from some earlier point that may just have well been the very beginning.
The documentation for error messages is severely incomplete, with only a very few of the most frequent ones mentioned. There is only vague 'advice' on how best to 'probably' solve truly MAJOR issues which, left unfixed, result in a completely unusable design AND file, and, again, crashing to the desktop, and some times taking down the machine as well.
Case in point, after carefully and tediously spending many hours RECREATING my file from scratch, the software mysteriously 'dropped' one of my outside walls, making the file crash-prone, buggy, and completely unusable. Is there a way to fix this type of error? If there is, its not mentioned in the documentation, or the FAQs, or anywhere on (their) website or (their) help files. (And did I forget to mention that the hapless user can 'forget' tech support - not surprisingly, (they) never answer their emails!). Walls routinely resize themselves, whereas individual rooms sometimes flatly refuse to be resized, no matter how hard you tug. Objects (such as lamps and windows) also have the disconcerting habit of moving to what they deem to be 'better' locations (especially lights), with no explanation mentioned anywhere as to why this should be so. I spent many frustration sessions trying vainly to place porch lights, which seem to have a mind of their own.
I'll stop now. Needless to say, I've had a very bad time with this software. Since I can't return it to CompUSA, and since I would definitely NOT sell it to anyone, or even give it as a gift, I am forced to salvage what I can; my various plan layouts, attempt to print them, and then go back down to CompUSA to try another product, from one of (their) competitors, more than likely the industry leader in this type of software, Punch! Thanks for nothing!

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fraud, November 30, 2003

By 

MG (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total 3D Home Deluxe 6.0 (DVD-ROM)

There is a limit of how bad software can be and still deserve the proud name of a Lemon, not plain ugly fraud. Total 3D Home Deluxe 6.0 is beyond this limit. This company (Individual Software) is taking advantage of the store policies that do not allow return of opened software to make money on casual one-time buyers attracted to the box. I can't imagine anybody who bought this software and wouldn't want their money back.

This product is a fraud. The box could just as well be empty. (This would have saved me some time). I have never in my life paid money for anything close to this. In fact, any decent human being would be ashamed to give this away for free.

It works exactly as described in the above review. It quits all the time silently to the operating system without warning. Just adding a shower anywhere causes such a crash. Opening a saved plan may be impossible and cause a total loss of everything.

Describing all the many bugs is pointless, since this is entirely unusable "work in progress(?)" far from beta level.

I consider myself an old hack quite experienced in avoiding bugs, using work-arounds, and finding ways to do poorly documented things etc. in all kinds of software. I am NOT just an innocent guy who wants to build a home addition and has no time to tinker with software. Everybody else's Windows systems may crash ten times a day - not mine. (now using XP Pro, but also true for previous versions). I have never seen software without bugs.

I don't expect to get great software for the price of a dinner for two at a cheap restaurant (with beer for one). However, Total 3D Home Deluxe 6.0 leaves me speechless.

Bottom line: junk.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars CRASH PRONE HUNK OF JUNK, December 26, 2004

By 

Kar Dell "spiceumup" (North East United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total 3D Home Deluxe 6.0 (DVD-ROM)

I have been working on computers since 1975. I have seen some awful programs, including some that I have written. This is the single most crash prone piece of software I have ever had the misfortune to use. No mater what you do, it WILL crash. It WILL corrupt HOURS of work and leave you with no option but to delete the file and start over again.

USE ANYTHING BUT THIS SOFTWARE